Data Architect

Remote - LAKEWOOD, CO

(Remote Position)

 

                                                                                                               

Company Information

NexGen Technologies, Inc. is a leading IT services firm specializing in delivering innovative, high-quality solutions to our federal government clients. Our core competencies include IT professional support services, software development, cloud services, IT Operations, Agile project management, and GIS services.

 

Job Summary

NexGen is currently seeking a Data Architect to be responsible for data architecture and recommendations to enhance data architecture for major National Applications used by the Federal Government. The ideal candidate will possess demonstrable experience in architecting data solutions for large-scale on-site and cloud-based implementations. 

 

Supervisory Responsibilities

  • There are no supervisory responsibilities. 

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (as assigned)

  • Projects long-range requirements for database design in conjunction with other managers in the information systems function.   
  • Identify architectural risks and plans to mitigate.  
  • Lead innovation by exploring, investigating, recommending, benchmarking and implementing data centric technologies for the platform.   
  • Conducts quality control and auditing of databases in a client/server environment to ensure accurate and appropriate use of data. Advises users on access to various client/server databases.  
  • Create new data validation methods and data analysis tools.  
  • Effectively and accurately communicate with management regarding project status, issue identification and remediation. 
  • High quality customer service skills including strong training skills. 
  • Analyze problem incidents, debug SQL and implement fixes. 
  • Performs data access analysis design, and archive/recovery design and implementation.   
  • Experience with administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, benchmarking and performance tuning of Database Engines. 
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational with exceptional written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Other duties may be assigned. 

 

Technical Skills 

  • 3+ years’ experience with Data Modeling. 
  • Expertise with reverse engineering existing application databases and underlying data architecture to present recommendations for optimizing the underlying data models.  
  • Experience with enterprise data architecture for multi-bureau federal systems. 
  • Experience with ADLS Gen2 Lakehouse design. Data classification, row/column-level security.  
  • Experience with Data dictionary and lineage governance across 3+ data sources.  
  • Experience with Azure Synapse Analytics. Azure Purview for data catalog. 

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related scientific or technical degree; or equivalent experience. 

 

  Additional Requirements

  • The successful candidate will also be able to pass background screening prior to employment. 
  • US Citizenship, legal permanent residence, or US work authorization with minimum 3 years of US presence is required due to federal contract requirements.

 

Compensation: $110,000-140,000 per year

(The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions.)

 

 

NexGen Technologies, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer.  

 

 

(Last Revision: 2026-04-02)